The essential variable is the stability of the levels of ammonia. The carrrying capacity of individuales to be added to culture system will depend of the available food via authoctonous (natural) or induced artificially.

Hi Arturo,

Take a look at our article in Reviews in Aquaculture 2015, 7, 1-12. The principles that we use for are similar to the problems you are facing.

Hi Arturo,

If you have an extensive data set already of shrimp growth, nutrients, food assimilation or feeding techniques, shrimp biomass etc. I would suggest modeling such as the DEB model etc..  I would recommend a discussion with my colleague Ramón Filgueira which you can find on ResearchGate. He will be happy to adivse you on this subject. Dr. Filgueira is a modeler which specializes in aquaculture interactions with coastal and estuaries systems.

Best regards,

Remi 

Dear all

thank you for your advice, I will take into account eacch one to go in depth about this issue. My concern is that literature and even our Mexican regulation mention a lot, the importance to know "carrying capacity" of ecosystemes, regarding economic activities. But besides some methods to measure nutrients or trophic state in coastal water bodies, like TRIX index, I have not found, until now, references on carrying capacity measures. I will take a look on the paper you mention (R Roubach) and I will contact R. Figueira. Thanks to all of you, 

Review of recent carrying capacity models for bivalve culture and recommendations for research and managementReview ArticleAquaculture, Volume 261, Issue 2, 24 November 2006, Pages 451-462

Christopher W. McKindsey, Helmut Thetmeyer, Thomas Landry, William Silvert

This article would probably be of interest to you. It talks about all types of carrying capacity from an aquaculture perspective (Physical CC, Economical CC, Ecological CC etc...)

Regards,

Remi

Hi Arturo, I'd suggest that you look at the productivity and other data on lagoons more or less similar to your own. You'll probably arrive at a range "from to". It would give you an idea, and for practical reasons and until you have applied the models and other scientific means, also a practical guidance.      MB-Y